Two US sources say the United States has “virtually all” depleted its precision-guided missiles, according to reporting by multiple Australian outlets. The disclosure comes after earlier reports that President Donald Trump cancelled a major planned wave of strikes against Iran. Those reports attributed the cancellation, in part, to warnings from US military officials about a shortfall in the availability of precision munitions.
While the articles do not provide extensive operational detail, they broadly describe a situation in which limited stocks of precision missiles affect US planning for potential strikes. The new information is presented as originating from unnamed US sources and is framed as reflecting the scale of the depletion rather than a specific timeline for when the missiles were expended.
All accounts focus on the same core linkage: the reported lack of precision missile capacity and its role in decisions to scale back or cancel planned strike actions against Iran. The reports do not cite publicly verifiable numbers in the excerpts provided, nor do they outline alternative weapon types or whether the US can replenish stocks quickly.
